Coronavirus crisis: Trust in French government dwindles as virus toll continues to rise

MORE than half of French people have serious concerns about the government's ability to tackle the coronavirus crisis, a poll published on Sunday found, as the number of confirmed infections shot past 40,000.

The poll, conducted by Ifop for Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), showed that 56 percent of French people do not trust the government to “effectively address” the worsening health crisis. Just 44 percent said that they approved of the government’s crisis response plan, down 11 points in one week.

Paradoxically, a separate poll by Ifop also commissioned by the JDD found that President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity rating had hit a...
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LONDON (Reuters) - People across almost all the world’s leading rich economies have turned more sceptical about their governments’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic with confidence slumping the most in Britain, a survey showed on Thursday.

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